The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-01
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.
Matters Grave and Gay In Which Our
Fair Readers Take an Especial
Interest.
A Couple of Columns Prepared Solely
for Their Instruction and
Edifcation.


There has arisen in our midst a new
school of diagnosists, if we may use the
word, who claim TO be able TO read your
character Just as correctly from hearing
you laugh as others who claim TO be able
TO do SO from reading the lines III your
hand or feeling the bumps on your head.
IL is n most involved science, and is not
likely to become fashionable, because it
takes too long a time to master its intri-
cacies; but 1t repays those who are patient
enough TO do so.
To laughter reader each inarticulate
sound of tue vocal organs in exclamation
is as expressive to his ears as are the chords
of the human voice in song. The slightest
variations tell to their practiced ears the
many and unique emotions of our diverse
natures.
There are the laughs spontaneous, SEN
timental. satirical, hysterical, and scornful.
The caressing coo, the diabolical grin, the
inane giggle, the simpering smirk, the loud
OUTLAW, the tantalizing litter, and the broad,
vulgar horse. laugh, each expressing In its
own way the heart leaping with JOY, telling
to the practiced ear the nature that heart
inhabits.
Now,we do not profess to be an expert IN
this occult science, but we are sufficiently
acquainted with society at large to know
something about smiles and their uses and
abuses.
The smile in society, to be effective, must
be managed with the utmost delicacy. 1t
must be self-adjusting, fully under the
control of its possessor, self-possessed,
holding its powers continually in reserve,
and at the same time be apparently un-
.concious.
The best smile is, of course, matter of
the countenance; vet much of its success
depends upon its surrounding influences.
A good smiler must have good teeth, a
'serens mind and an unaffected stomach;
a dImple in the cheek is not absolutely
necessary, but adds much if available.
A generous world does not expect you to
-cackle simply because there is vacuity
left to he filled up; it would much rather
havo q gloomy countenance than sickly
.conviviality married by hidden grief caused
by dyspeptic proclivities.
But the foaming, frothing smile is the
joyous senses giving tangible expression.
The eye wrinkles, the cheek trembles, the
mouth expands with a tremor, and the
whole face dances a metaphorical High
land fling. 1t throws the radiance of a
rainbow over all. In an instant it is gone;
the lips close, the eye resumes its former
expression. the cheeks are without a
wrinkle.
Such smile Influences all around.
Other faces are shortened; bright looks
peep out like shy snowdrops after hard
winter, and the world wags on more cheer
fully. Is is better than any other known
nerve quieter.
What delightful thing it would be if
we could always command such an express
sion at will. Then, when through some
influence we get on blue goggles and the
harmonious spheres seem sadly jaundiced,
some one would shout, browns to the
rear, smiles to the 'front.'" we would soon
find that this was pretty jolly habitation
in which to be knocking around for events.
-ChicaQo Ledger.